Re: [Fluxbox-users] How do I enable antialiasing? (desperate)

[Curtis H <cur...@te...>]

On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 13:32, James Marsh wrote:
> * Curtis H <cur...@te...> [28-Nov-2002 20:37]:
> > Well this helped me get rid of the huge fonts.  I don't know that
> > much about fonts, but the fluxbox man page was no help. The example 
> > in 0.13 is:
> > 
> >  *font:    -b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*
> > 
> > It would be nice to change it to the format you've given.
> 
> Well, I'm no expert, but if you want to use lucida, 
> 
> *font: lucida-7
> 
> looks reasonable on my screen. Unfortunately the hinting and kerning
> is quite poor and causes letters to come too close together etc.
> 
> The microsoft core fonts have all had a lot of effort put into making
> sure they look good at small font sizes. 
> 
> *font: tahoma-6:bold
> 
> looks excellent on my screen for example.
> 

Exactly.  Now that I know the format which works, I can play around with
setting it up like I want.  I was just saying that the man page example
doesn't help.

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